عمل

The grammatical “government” meaning is a semantic loan from Medieval Latin vīs. Compare Hebrew עָמָל (`Amal, “work, deed”).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.mi.la/

عَمِلَ • (ʕamila) I (non-past يَعْمَلُ (yaʕmalu), verbal noun عَمَل (ʕamal))

1. (intransitive) to work, perform

   هُوَ يَعْمَلُ فِي مَجَالِ التَكْنُولُوجِيَا.

   huwa yaʕmalu fī majāli t-taknūlūjiyā.

   He works in the field of technology.

   أَنَا أَعْمَلُ مُدَرِّسًا فِي الْمَدْرَسَةِ.

   ʔanā ʔaʕmalu mudarrisan fī l-madrasati.

   I work as a teacher at the school.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:79:

     أَمَّا السَّفِينَةُ فَكَانَتْ لِمَسَاكِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ فِي الْبَحْرِ

     ʔammā s-safīnatu fakānat limasākīna yaʕmalūna fī l-baḥri

     As for the ship, it belonged to some poor people, working at sea.

     Translated by Mustafa Khattab.

2. (transitive) to do (with deliberate thought)
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 22:23:

     إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُدْخِلُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ

     ʔinna l-laha yudḵilu llaḏīna ʔāmanū waʕamilū aṣ-ṣāliḥāti jannātin tajrī min taḥtihā l-ʔanhāru

     Allah will surely admit those who believe and do good into Gardens, under which rivers flow

     Translated by Mustafa Khattab

3. to practice, profess
4. to produce an effect
5. to be brisk, walk fast
6. to exercise an influence
7. (grammar, intransitive) to govern a case
8. to take pains (عَلَى (ʕalā) with)
9. to work to an end
10. to take care of
11. to last without interruption

• IPA^(key): /ʕam.ma.la/

عَمَّلَ • (ʕammala) II (non-past يُعَمِّلُ (yuʕammilu), verbal noun تَعْمِيل (taʕmīl))

1. to pay (someone) their fee or wages
2. to make (someone) an administrator or governor
3. to suppurate, grow cancerous

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.mal/

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عَمَل • (ʕamal) m (plural أَعْمَال (ʔaʕmāl))

1. verbal noun of عَمِلَ (ʕamila) (form I)
2. action, act, deed
3. work, business

   الْعَمَلُ الْجَمَاعِيُّ يُمْكِنُ أَن يَكُونَ مُفِيدًا فِي إِنْجَازِ الْمُشَارِيعِ الْكَبِيرَةِ.

   al-ʕamalu l-jamāʕiyyu yumkinu ʔan yakūna mufīdan fī ʔinjāzi l-mušārīʕi l-kabīrati.

   Collaborative work can be beneficial in completing large projects.

4. (grammar) government

• → Azerbaijani: əməl
• → Bashkir: ғәмәл (ğəməl)
• → Ottoman Turkish: عمل
• → Persian: عمل ('amal)
  • → Bengali: আমল (amol)
• → Swahili: amali
• → Tatar: гамәл (ğamäl)
• → Uyghur: ئەمەل (emel)
• → Uzbek: amal

• Praetorius, Franz (1909) “Die grammatische Rektion bei den Arabern”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[1], volume 63, pages 495–503
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “عمل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “عمل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic عَمِلَ (ʕamila, “to work”).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.mal/, [ˈʕæmɜl]
• IPA^(key): /ʕi.mil/, [ˈʕɪmel], [-ɪl]

عَمَل or عِمِل • (ʕamal or ʕimil) I (verbal noun عمل (ʕamal), active participle عامل (ʕāmil))

1. to do

   بتعمل ايه؟ ― bitiʕmil ē? ― What are you doing?

2. to make

   عايز اعمل اكل ― ʕāyiz aʕmil akl ― I want to make food

3. (reflexive, ditransitive) to pretend to be

   عمل نفسه جامد ― ʕamal nafsu gāmid ― He pretended to be cool

From Arabic عَمَل (ʕamal).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.mal/, [ˈʕæmɜl]

عمل • (ʕamal) m (plural اعمال (aʕmāl))

1. verbal noun of عمل (ʕamal)
2. spell, act of witchcraft or black magic

From Arabic عَمِلَ (ʕamila).

• IPA^(key): /ʕmal/

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عمل • (ʕmal) I (non-past يعمل (yiʕmal))

1. to do

   Synonym: دار (dār)

1=ع
4=ʕ
5=m
3=ل
2=م
6=l

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Arabic عَمِلَ (ʕamila).

عمل • (ʕimil, ʕamal) I (non-past يعمل (yiʕmil, yiʕmal, yiʕmul, yaʕ-))

1. to do

   شو عم تعمل؟ ― šu ʕam taʕmul? ― What are you doing?

2. to make
3. (reflexive) to make oneself (something); (often with the notion) to pretend to be, to give oneself the appearance of

   كلما شوف مديري بعمل حالي كتير مشغول.

   kilma šūf mudīri baʕmul ḥāli ktīr mašḡūl

   Whenever I see my boss, I try to look very busy.

Borrowed from Arabic عَمَل (ʕamal).

عمل • ('amal) (plural اعمال (a'mâl), or عمل‌ها)

1. action

   Synonyms: کنش (koneš), کار (kâr)

2. deed
3. operation

   Synonym: عملیات ('amaliyât)

From Arabic عَمِلَ (ʕamila).

• IPA^(key): /ʕi.mil/, [ˈʕɛ.mɪl], [ˈʕɪ.mɪl], [ˈʕi.mɪl]
• IPA^(key): /ʕa.mal/, [ˈʕa.mal]

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عمل • (ʕimil) I (present بعمل (biʕmil), active participle عامل (ʕāmel))

1. to do

   Synonym: سوّى (sawwa)

   شو بتحبّ نعمل؟ ― šu bitḥebb niʕmil? ― What would you like for us to do?

   يلّا تعالي، شو بتعملي؟ ― yalla taʕāli, šu btiʕmili? ― Come on, what are you doing?

2. to make, to prepare

   Synonym: سوّى (sawwa)

   عملتلي دور. ― ʕimlatli dōr. ― She made an appointment for me.

   رح أعملكم أشياء زاكية.

   raḥ ʔaʕmilkom ʔašyāʔ zākye.

   I'm going to prepare some sweets for you.

3. (reflexive) to act (a certain way), to pretend

   عمل حاله نايم. ― ʕimil ḥālo nāyem. ― He acted like he was asleep.

• Like عرف (ʕirif), non-past forms may use “a” as the core vowel and in the prefix, so forms like بِعْمَل (beʕmal) and بْيَعْمِل (byaʕmel) are possible as well.

عَمَل • (ʕamal) m (plural أَعْمَال)

1. work, business, employment
2. action, act, deed

Borrowed from Classical Persian عمل ('amal), from Arabic عَمَل (ʕamal).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ə.məl/
• Rhymes: -əl

عمل • ('amal) m (Hindi spelling अमल)

1. action, deed
2. process
3. effect